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How to Simplify Your Life (or Anything) in 4 Easy Steps

March 16, 2010
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Over the last couple of years I’ve been on a kick trying to streamline and simplify my life in any way possible. I’m a firm believer in “less is more” and while I’m no minimalist, scaling down has been a breath of fresh air. Along the way, I found I was following a similar process [...]

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5 Things To Stop Obsessing Over On Your Website: a.k.a. “Can I get that button in cornflower blue?”

January 12, 2010

When you kick off your next webstite or perhaps even with the one you already have, focus on what matters and what will get you results (sales, leads, whatever…), not what won’t. Put another way, don’t focus on things that really just serve to distract you from the real work of building a business website. [...]

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6 Simple Ways To Better Google Search Results

December 27, 2009

There a number of simple techniques that can help you get better, more accurate search results when using Google. Most of the time we just type in the search phrase we think most accurately represents what we are looking for and the results are pretty good. But sometimes we don’t quite get to what [...]

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Create a Favicon For Your Website

December 20, 2009

Favicons are one of those little branding things that really are a “small touch” but make the whole site look a little more polished and professional. And let’s face it, when you attach one to your site it just feels cool. I still grin every time I add one!
If you’re aren’t quite sure what a [...]

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Easily Resize Images for the Web and Email

December 20, 2009

Multimedia is all over the web now and video in particular is catching on but for most of us, images will are the most common form of media we’ll add to our websites.  Despite how frequently they are used one thing a lot of people don’t do is appropriately re-size images for their site or [...]

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Building The Ultimate Website Content Map Pt.1

December 10, 2009

All too often when we start to build a site (or rebuild one) the inclination is to start with design. But the content we populate the site with is the true foundation for the site, whether it is purely informational, geared toward selling, entertaining or whatever purpose your site has. The video tutorial below is [...]

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Work Faster with Keystrokes on Windows and Mac

October 29, 2009

It’s surprising to me how many people who spend a considerable time in front of a computer (don’t we all these days) rarely if ever use keystrokes. It might be the #1 habit (maybe #2 after getting them to switch to Firefox or anything but IE) that I would break in most computer users. If [...]

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Your Social Media EcoSystem

October 17, 2009

A graphical explanation of the Social Media Ecosystem depicting relationships and functionality. Most attempts to describe the social media ecosystem are two dimensional making it difficult to accurately depict.

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A Basic Explanation of WordPress Taxonomies

September 28, 2009

Over the last week or so I’ve started playing intensely with custom taxonomies in WordPress,  and the geek in me is in love with the possibilities. Now, before you go running off thinking this is only hardcore “geek stuff” let me explain what taxonomies are, why they are important and provide a basic example of [...]

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